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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VVILLTAM S. SEYMOUR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF I ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH S; KELLER, OF SAME PLACE.

HOOK AND EYE, I

srncrrrcs'rrorr forming part of was Patent No. 506,735, dated October 17, 1893.

Application and m 5.1893,. Serial No. 473,125. on moat-,1.)

To all whom it may concern.- inclining at a slight angle toward the main Be it known that I, \VILLIAM S. SEYMOUR, body or shank of the hook. The main body a citizen of the United States, residing at Philor shank of the hook is formed of the secadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and tions m terminating at their free ends in 5 State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain loops f. At the junction of the shank secnew-and useful Improvements in Hooks and -tions m with the anchorages e, the wire of Eyes; and I do hereby declare'the following which the hook is formed approaches the bill tobe a'fnll, clear, and exactdescription of the 0 so as to beseparated therefrom on either invention, such as will enable others skilled in side thereof by an interval less than the dino theart to which it appertains to make and aineter of the wire of the cooperating eye, so

use the same. that to engage the eye with the hook, the eye In an application for- Let'ters Patent of the must be snapped through the said interval United States filed by me of even date hereinto the space beneath the bill c. with, Serial No. 473,124, I have shown and de- At either side of the bill c the hook is ex- :5 scribed a hook having an upwardly and reartended to form anchoring 'loops e, and these wardly extending bill and two substantially anchoring loops e are located at the extreme flat curves extending on opposite sidesof the ends of the wings, andv at such a distance bill and co-operating therewith, an eye receivfrom the hill 0 that when .the: eye is in eningspace beingprovided beneath the bill for gagement with the bill as:intendedi n Fig. 1, 7o 20 the reception of the engaging loop of the eye. the stitching for fastening the anchoring My present invention relates to a modified loops e to the fabric willbe beyond the eye,so form of hook of this general character, as as not to be abraded by said eye. hereinafter described and particularly point- As'in other applications for various modied out in the claim. fications'of hooks andeyes devised by me, so 25 In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 also in this instance,- the. eye may be disasrepresents view of two pieces of fabric whose sembled from the hook by holding fast the proximate edgesare adapted to be united by fabric upon ,which the hook is sewed and means of my improved hook in connection tilting the eye sidewise and thenforcing. it 'with a suitable eye. Fig. 2 represents in pe'rthrough the space through which it entered 3o spective the hook and eye disengaged from in becoming engaged with the hook; and in each ot'her. Fig. 3 represents a top planview this manner by a singlecontinuous' stripping of the hook and eye also disconnected from movement beginning fromone end or the each other; and Fig. 4 represents a central other-end of a series of hooks andteyes, the longitudinal section of the two in engage-' entire series may be disengaged from each 8 5 nient with each other. other; and with equal facility whether the Similar letters of reference indicate similar stripping movement be begun at one end of' parts throughout the several views. the series of hooks and eyes or at the other;

Referring to the drawings, A, B, indicate 'It is a matter'of great importance in hooks two pieces of fabric orthe like adapted to be and eyes of this general character that the 9e 4e fastened together along their edges by mean hook anchored to the fabric as securely 05 y v fi 4 and rigidly as possible so asto retain during The eye preferably consists, as in my apthe stripping movement a fixed relationship plication referred to, of a how a of general to the fabric and soas not to partake of the rectangular contour, provided at its ends tilting movement of the co-op'erating eye, nor

I 5 with the re-entering loops 1) as shown whereto yield within itself to any -greater degree by said eye may bejsewed in the usual manthan is sulficient to permit of the disengagener to the fabric so as to be securely anchored ment of the eye, for which purpose an err-- thereto. The'eye-is provided at its forward tremely slight movement onlyjis necessary. end with a downwardly projecting cross bar a. .To this end, it is important that the hook be 10 50 The hook is-provided with an upwardly anchored well forward and on either side of and rearwardly ertending curved bill 0, thus the bil'.., and that, by the suppression of any looped portion between the point; where the eye issues from the hook .and the shank v proper of the hook, any tendency of the hook to yield longitudinally may be avoided.

5' Having thus I olaim'is In a book an described my invention, what (1 eye, a hook consisting of a hill 0, side wings eformi'ng a continuation of the bill, and shank portions m in the same to plane with and forming a direct continuation of the wings, th

e junction of the side wings with the shank portions forming guards for the bill and being separated from the bill by an interval permitting the passage of the cooperating eye; substantially as described. I 5

In testimony whereof I atfix mysi-gnature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM S. SEYMOUR.

Witnesses:

WM. BERKHEISER, DANIEL H. REIFF. 

